In a new film made for Apple Vision Pro, audiences can experience President Macron’s point of view during this summer’s Bastille Day celebrations.
During this year’s event, the French production company spent the day at the side of President Macron, capturing the celebration with Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive digital film camera.
Audiences can hear President Macron’s narration as they journey from the Élysée Palace to the Place de la Concorde and down the Champs-Élysées.
“The concept was simple: to let the French experience Bastille Day as never before, right alongside the President,” said director Frank-David Cohen. “Apple Immersive Video set the format, and Blackmagic’s workflow made it practical to deliver. Together they allowed us to take viewers inside places normally off limits, as if teleported into the scene.”
Immersive Flashback had to work with France Télévisions so that the immersive rigs didn’t appear on screen during the live broadcast.
“Previously immersive shoots meant staging carefully, because the workflows couldn’t handle surprises,” Cohen explained. “At the Élysée, we had to move straight from office interiors into daylight with no time to adjust. With Blackmagic RAW we could keep rolling, knowing those transitions could be managed in post without breaking the workflow.
“With the URSA Cine Immersive and its DaVinci Resolve workflow, capture was native and the process was almost as simple as 2D.”
Each camera carried ambisonic recording to match the viewer’s perspective, supported by traditional microphones for voices or effects further away. “The camera became both our eyes and our ears,” Cohen said.
Post production was completed in DaVinci Resolve Studio, combining editing, grading and spatial sound in one environment, with the final sound mix carried out by Studio 31dB, a team specialising in spatial audio. “Resolve’s integration meant we could handle everything in one place. Fairlight gave us spatial mixing at a level sometimes better than dedicated tools,” Cohen added.
The film is now available for viewing on Apple Vision Pro at the Maison Élysée.
